With that said, the odds of your house getting by a tornado are very low.  

The odds are that the job will cost you more than if you hired a GC .

Then add in all the fees that are being added by AirBnB, VRBO, etc. and hotels are in many cases a better deal . . . less surprise fees and fewer owners that have odd rules. 

Im literally in the final stages of closing on the loan and my rate would jump from %3.75 to %4.12.None of what she mentioned made much sense and later on in the day I reached out to another lender who said he's never heard of this fee in the first place Which I also found odd.

Definitely odd but honestly trees are a pain for maintenance so I would not be mad it's gone.

Not always, but it puts the odds strongly in your favor. 

Hi, I am in the middle of an odd scenario. 

They advised me to “revert immediately” if I found anything wrong with their terms, which I thought was a little odd.

Oddly enough he also is in Scottsdale.

Not good odds.